Type-1 Diabetes

Mar 10, 2023

True or False? Answers to Your Diabetes Questions

By Roberta Kleinman|2024-01-17T14:58:00-05:00Updated: March 10th, 2023|Diabetes Management, Diet & Nutrition, Type 1|0 Comments

Knowing what to do to manage your diabetes is crucial to your future health. Understanding the difference between true and false information about diabetes can help you achieve better blood sugar control. Look for accurate information from reliable sources. There is so much information online or learned from our friends and family about diabetes that may […]

Feb 4, 2021

Your Blood Sugar Readings: Be a Detective!

By Roberta Kleinman|2022-02-23T17:50:53-05:00Updated: February 4th, 2021|Diabetes Management, Diet & Nutrition, Fitness & Diabetes, Type 1|0 Comments

It is easy to understand why your blood sugars spike high after eating 2 or 3 sugar coated donuts when you have diabetes. Too much empty sugar from cookies, candy and pies lead to elevated numbers. With diabetes you do not have the insulin needed to regulate your blood sugars. Unfortunately, there are many other unsuspecting […]

Jul 30, 2019

Diabulimia: A Type 1 Diabetes Eating Disorder

By Roberta Kleinman|2024-01-17T15:16:16-05:00Updated: July 30th, 2019|Diabetes Management, General Information, Health & Wellness, Type 1|0 Comments

Diabulimia is an eating disorder that continues to grow among adolescents, teens and young adults, who have type 1 diabetes. Diabulimia is when type 1 patients deliberately restrict their insulin to lose weight; the reduction or omission of insulin eventually causes out of control blood sugars and multiple diabetes complications. Renaming happened in 2008 to several […]

Jun 11, 2019

Freestyle Libre CGM System for Diabetes

By Roberta Kleinman|2019-06-11T11:27:33-04:00Updated: June 11th, 2019|Diabetes Management, Diabetic Supply Review, New Products, Type 1|0 Comments

Freestyle Libre is a new continuous glucose monitoring system (CGM) for individual patient use. It can help you improve and control your diabetes for patients 18 years of age or older. The Freestyle Libre system does require a prescription. It can help you track blood glucose trends, both high and low, without a finger stick which […]

Apr 2, 2019

15 Best Diabetes Technology Trends and Products

By Roberta Kleinman|2023-09-20T15:32:18-04:00Updated: April 2nd, 2019|New Products, Recent Diabetes News, Type 1|0 Comments

2018 marks another exciting year of news in the world of diabetes research and diabetes care.  There were several yearly updates in all aspects of diabetes diagnosis, treatment and prevention by many professional diabetes expert organizations.  These include yearly meetings and presentations held by The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), in Boston in May 2018, as well as The American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) in Baltimore, August 2018.

Mar 6, 2018

Easter, Diabetes and Sugar Cravings

By Roberta Kleinman|2018-03-08T10:13:27-05:00Updated: March 6th, 2018|Diabetes Management, Diet & Nutrition, Gestational, Health & Wellness, Newsletters, Pre-Diabetes, Type 1|1 Comment

Walking into the stores you see enormous chocolate bunnies, marshmallow /caramel filled Easter eggs (or chicks), sugar laden Easter peeps in yellow, green and pink along with a wide assortment of colored jelly beans or gummy bunnies all in preparation for the Easter Holiday.

Dec 12, 2017

Brittle Type 1 Diabetes OR Type 1 Diabetes – Which is it?

By Roberta Kleinman|2018-03-06T14:00:23-05:00Updated: December 12th, 2017|Diabetes Management, Newsletters, Type 1|2 Comments

“Due to the increase in prevalence of type 1 diabetes, a new report projects the global type 1 diabetes costs to reach over 25 billion dollars by 2024.” Type 1 diabetes is considered an autoimmune disease that effects the beta cells of the pancreas where insulin is formed. It comes on rapidly and exogenous insulin via […]

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